Fat People Movement

what about pregnant women?

http://current.com/items/89925511_bump-and-grind.htm

if you can carry those extra pounds and still be healthy. then go girl. we have so many different ways of putting people down. what is really hot is a woman who knows her own body. so thin may not be the most important thing. by the way have never been heavy myself so don't go looking to some other reasons for this comment.

there is a fundamental problem with comparing weight based discrimination to that of race, gender, or sexual orientation: weight is a mutable characteristic. race, gender, and sexual orientation are immutable, and therefor deserve protection.
laziness and lack of restraint do not deserve protection. take any college level course on discrimination to find this out.
otherwise, get on the AXIOM...

Well let me knoe when you fats have heart attacks so I come to your funerals. Fat is definitely not attractive and healthy, just like "girls who are too skinny". I guess this is the fat folks way of bringing up their self-esteems??? Well try harder. Nobody in their right mind wants to be "plus-sized" or "Fat"....oh and that means the same thing!!! Thin is beautiful.

Fat people movement?

This pod is a very important portrayal of the fat acceptance movement, and I applaud these women for their deep dedication and conviction to it (Especially longtime fat activist Marilyn Wann, who wrote a wonderful book several years' ago called "Fat! So?"). However, even though I am "plus-size" myself, I cannot completely agree with it.

I am currently on a weight-reduction diet due to my family's severe history of Type 2 Diabetes. I get annoyed, even angry at times, when my fellow plus-size activists tell me that I am wasting my "positive energy" on my diet and that I am fine the way I am. My personal family health history is the writing on the wall ...telling me that I cannot accept feeling "just fine" being a "plus size."

Medical research has proven time and again that obesity is a major trigger factor of Type 2 Diabetes, and that weight loss for many people that are heredically prone to this life-threatening, society-affecting condition is an important factor in keeping it, hopefully, away.

I did not have gastric bypass surgery to start my diet off (I am vehemently against weight-loss surgery of any kind). I am not dieting to become Anorexic (Reality: Anorexia Nervosa is a DISEASE of equal concern, not a choice at all.), or have a goal of wearing over-priced, "size-zero" designer duds. I am losing weight to get healthy. Period.

It is my hope that these fat activists and educators are taking matters of healthfulness into consideration when they are spreading their messages. Size acceptance should be about EVERYONE, not just certain groups of people. Most certainly, it should send a message to society that people of all shapes and sizes need to live and thrive in peace, without prejudicial, abusive, catcalling by the ignorant likes of Liberal_Extinction.

While I am trying to say is that while I applaud these women for their brave, important, necessary activism, the message that really needs to be told is the importance of HEALTHFULNESS. Being overweight/obese is, like it or not, not for everyone.

ROFLMFAO, reenforce the floors there's a stampede of heifers on the horizon! Hate to break it to ya but there is no such thing as a BBW. While people don't all need to look like anorexic supermodels, looking like a disproportionate tub is no better and does NOT affect only the fat person. People have to sit next to these people in restaurants, airplanes, buses, and a whole laundry list of other places. If you're too big to limit it to 1 seat and 1 seat only they should have to buy 2. FFS they're now talking about outlawing smoking outdoors in LA and people are still allowed to shovel unhealthy amounts of food into their faces, gimme a break.

What will they do when they dance themselves skinny and they are no longer noticed for being different?

This is absurd. While I don't find size-zero women any more attractive than those whose sizes are followed by a few zeros, I think there is a happy medium.

I think it's ridiculous that reactionary movements like the "phat" movement embrace what seems to be the antithesis of the zero-sized mentality, when in reality, the two are akin to one another -- they both embrace excess (excessive eating, excessive dieting).

I have a few very large friends...and as I have seen the verbal abuse they receive from strangers everyday - I can argue that the negative treatment and discrimination and hate they are handed everyday is likely much worse for them than the weight they carry.

great pod!

"It's a conspiracy; the government wants us to get used to less and get us used to starvation..."

While I don't agree with that, I do agree that being "overweight" doesn't ALWAYS mean that you are unhealthy. Everyone is built differently. Lots of body fat is just usually a pretty accurate indicator of an unhealthy lifestyle and poor health, but so is lack of body fat. Being too skinny can also be just as dangerous. Key is just eating right, staying active, staying happy, make sure you don't have any hormonal inbalances, love yourself... whatever body you end up with is a healthy one for you, and you should love that.

woohoo :D i want a yay scale

Healty Eating is the key...Boycot unhealthy foods.

Corporations make it too easy...to gain gain gain...

Anyone in a decision making position should make it pro-health, instead of pro-profit.

One Love healthy eating...

A.W.E.S.O.M.E.

I feel empowered,mental health is the more sensitive of the two and being FAT can damage that faster then it could cause health problems. I think its more important to love your self before you go forward making improvements.